WordPress worries?
✅ Our founder has been developing WordPress sites since 2005, developed several custom WordPress plugins (e.g. ComparePress.com) and been at the forefront of WordPress SEO.
👀 Find out how we will make sure your business is noticed online using WordPress in 2025.
Why WordPress?
WordPress is still our favourite platform for content-based sites and business websites. Over 43% of the entire internet runs on WordPress, and for good reason – it’s powerful, flexible, and endlessly customisable.
This site, in case you didn’t realise, runs very happily on WordPress and has done in various forms since 2009 when we even created our company name around building blogs on WordPress.
We want to help you discover how easy it is to implement, manage and SEO a WordPress based blog or site on web hosting you fully control.
WordPress is not simply about creating ‘blog’ style sites as many would think though: we strongly believe the WordPress system is the best base for virtually ANY web site idea you may have. Don’t believe us? Well you can use WordPress to power a Content Management System (CMS) style web site, an image gallery style site, an entire intranet, ecommerce sites, social networking sites and many more…
All of the above site types have been built using a WordPress based system for one key reason – simplicity. The core WordPress user editing features allow you to get on with writing the content and not worry about technical issues… for example FTP file transfers are taken care of automatically behind the scenes and URLs are rewritten to make them easier for search engines to work with by default.
Another huge factor in The Blog House building a lot of client sites on the WordPress system is the availability of WordPress Plugins to extend the standard functionality of WordPress even further. Want to add a shopping cart to your site? There are several plugins for that… Want to add social bookmarking links to all the content you write? There are several plugins for that. You get the idea.
In short, here’s why we recommend WordPress for most business sites:
✅ Flexibility: WordPress allows you to build anything from a simple blog to a complex membership site.
✅ SEO Power: Google loves WordPress. Its clean code and customisable structure make it easier to rank higher in search results.
✅ Scalability: Whether you’re a small business or a global brand, WordPress can grow with you.
✅ Community and Support: With thousands of developers and designers contributing to the platform, you’ll never struggle to find solutions or support.
We build SEO WordPress websites YOU have full control of - no tie in or long contracts
No monthly fees unless you want us to manage or update your WordPress site for you.
Other WordPress based systems...
Not only does the standard WordPress system allow you to do all of the above there are 3 additional ‘flavours’ of the WordPress system you can use which are each targeted at specific types of web sites and needs:
WordPress network or multisite?
Are you looking to start hosting and managing multiple WordPress blogs / sites all from one WordPress installation?
If so you need to look at the multisite feature of WordPress or WordPress MU as it used to be called pre WordPress 3.0. With a WordPress multisite set up you can:
- Get your main blog or site up and running quickly and manage this main blog via a single intuitive WordPress administration interface.
- Either allow users to create their own blogs / sites on your web server or create these for them using a sub domain e.g. JoeBloggs.mysite.com or sub folder e.g. mysite.com/joebloggs
- Manage all the blogs / sites on your web hosting plus themes, users and plugins from 1 central, super user WordPress administrator account using the familiar and easy to use WordPress Dashboard system.
BuddyPress
- Are you looking to build a new community type site that is easy to manage, updated regularly and has a fanatical set of coders updating and extending the system constantly?
- Do you want to add social networking to your existing, non blog style web site but have no idea how to go about it?
- Do you want to offer everything WordPress multisite does AND allow social interaction between ALL of your registered WordPress multisite users?
If so BuddyPress extends WordPress MU and brings social networking features to a new or existing installation via a collection of WordPress plugins and themes.
The BuddyPress system can be themed to match your existing corporate style, in just the same way as a normal WordPress blog so you can effectively ‘slot in’ a whole new social networking area into an existing site. BuddyPress comes bundled with a default theme to get you started but here at The Blog House we can work with you to create a bespoke BuddyPress based site that will get your visitors interacting and staying on your site for longer. Check out our BuddyPress specific area: BuddyPress Services
bbPress
- Are you looking to get your users discussing issues and ideas in a forum?
- Are you worried about forum software leaving you exposed to the latest hacking exploits due to horror stories from your web host?
- Been bitten in the past with slow, bloated forum or bulletin board software?
bbPress is a plain and simple forum software that is easy to use, easy to administrate, fast and clean. Created by the WordPress team, using bbPress means you will spend less time worrying how to keep things running smooth and safe and more time getting involved with your web site’s users.
As you can see from the above, the WordPress family of software has something for everyone and with the thousands of plugins & a vibrant developer community. With The Blog House’s specialist knowledge on top of this, we can turn any of your web site ideas into a professional, up to date, highly customisable and easy to use web site that will get your business noticed in 2025.